Chapter 344: Bright Sword "The Promise"
Of course I'm unhappy.
In the past two days, because of Han Sanping's instructions and Dong Jianqiang's request, he had to hide in Tibet for fear of being caught by reporters for interviews.
"The Promise" was returned by Miramax overseas, which directly affected the overseas copyright pre-sales of "Painted Skin". I was angry but had nowhere to vent.
I can only go to private restaurants to eat by myself, and I don’t dare to appear in the public eye.
I thought this was enough to upset me. My parents would quarrel over "The Promise" just by watching a movie.
"The Promise" has affected his life, and it has a serious impact.
Now even more...
Because of "The Promise", he was inexplicably scolded as a young man with ulterior motives.
Labor and management didn't even appear in a movie during the same period, so why did they have ulterior motives?
At this moment, Zhang Chen really had enough.
Damn it, are there any time-travelers in the world who are as frustrated as me?
I can’t bear it anymore, Zhang Chen decided not to bear it anymore, you provoked me first~
During the live broadcast, the host was a little surprised. He did not expect that Chen Hong would directly escalate the question to slandering "The Promise". Does "The Promise" still need to be slandered?
I just want to ask your opinion on why you directly launched a personal attack.
It seemed that he had inadvertently caused a rift between the two of them.
……
In the study room, Zhang Chen was writing furiously, no, writing furiously on the keyboard.
He is now a blogger. He publishes all his ideas through his blog and has become a banner of Sina Blog.
Sina even wanted to invite him to become the spokesperson of the blog section, but he refused.
It's okay to use this place of right and wrong to vent negative emotions. If you represent someone, it doesn't feel good.
Soon, an article of a few hundred words was published, with the title - From the autobiography of a "little gangster" with "ulterior motives".
A very disturbing thing happened today. My parents had a quarrel when they came back from watching "The Promise".
Because I can’t understand.
I don't want to comment on whether the movie is good or not, but I accidentally discovered that I had become what Producer Chen calls a "little gangster" with "ulterior motives".
I'm confused about this.
I just expressed my worries about the current situation of Mesozoic actors in Mainland China, and casually suggested that domestic directors should try their best to give these actors opportunities. How could this be regarded as having "ulterior motives", and even more so, "a gangster".
I have said before that some domestic filmmakers are always very superstitious about Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. They always say that only Hong Kong and Taiwan stars can compete at the box office and have box office appeal.
Come on, they have shitty box office appeal.
Take a look at our box office record. Are there any Hong Kong and Taiwan films in the first few films?
I know, if I say this, some people will definitely refute that the current number one box office hit "The Rescue" and the second box office hit "Heroes" are both Hong Kong and Taiwan actors.
Haha~
Then I can responsibly say that I chose Mr. Tony Leung for "Taken" not because of his box office appeal.
"Hero" stars Jet Li, a mainlander, and the rest of the characters are Hong Kong actors. But if you look at other films starring these actors, can they still reach the box office of "Hero"?
So does "Hero"'s 250 million box office have anything to do with these actors?
When it comes to box office appeal, I only recognize two actors in Hong Kong, one is Stephen Chow and the other is Cheng Long, and forget about the others.
Let me talk about why I advocate directors, especially big directors, to use more mainland actors.
They are too difficult.
In terms of acting skills, are they bad?
In terms of appearance, are they bad?
Nothing is bad, so why should they be the ones voicing Hong Kong and Taiwanese actors in the movie?
In the past, our film industry was lagging behind, and we lagged behind others in all aspects such as costumes and costumes. Our actors didn't even have professional makeup artists, so of course they couldn't compare to others in terms of image.
But things are different now. Although there is still a gap, it is not that big anymore.
Actors such as Huang Xiaoming, Chen Kun, and Liu Ye are not inferior to Hong Kong and Taiwan actors in terms of appearance and temperament, so why do they continue to act as co-stars?
So I hope domestic directors will open their eyes and stop being superstitious about box office appeal. Domestic actors are really not bad.
And when it comes to box office appeal, the box office of "The Mountain, That Man, That Dog", which Liu Ye once starred in, has reached a box office of 600 million yen in Japan. This really has box office appeal.
But in "The Promise", Ghost Wolf is just a dispensable supporting character. Isn't it a bit putting the cart before the horse?
The CEPA agreement stipulates that the main creative lineup of co-productions must include mainland actors, so the spring of mainland actresses is here. They have the opportunity to play heroines, but they have become a nightmare for male actors.
It is impossible for a Hong Kong director to let a mainland actor play the leading role.
Under such circumstances, why can't mainland directors and producers give more opportunities to these male actors, instead of giving the leading role to Korean actors, Japanese actors, Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, rather than to mainland actors?
I want to say that the profession of actors needs to be passed down from old to new. If this generation of male actors cannot get up, it will be difficult to get up in the future.
We say every day that we hope the mainland film market will prosper and the film market will be good, but we do nothing.
……
Zhang Chen wrote something in a snappy manner and felt pretty good. He didn't check for typos and just clicked send.
After clicking ‘Send’, I remembered to call Dong Jianqiang to inform him.
After receiving the notice, Dong Jianqiang was ready to kill Zhang Chen, "Uncle, can you inform me before you do anything in the future..."
Zhang Chen replied lightly: "The arrow is on the string, I have to shoot~"
Dong Jianqiang wants to scold his mother. You think you are Chen Lin, but the other party may not be Cao Cao.
Chen Xi also wanted to kill Zhang Chen.
All the specific measures were taken by Chen Xi. Zhang Chen made a move, and Chen Xi had no idea how much effort he had to put in to cooperate with him.
But precisely because of this, once Zhang Chen changes his mind, Chen Xi's efforts will be in vain. "Attention everyone, I will work overtime tonight to extract the necessary elements from this blog and compile it into an article. I will wait for my news. Once things change, I will send it out as soon as possible."
That's right, in Chen Xi's opinion, this blog is just a propaganda article, and Zhang Chen and Poet Chen are about to face off.
Now that you've matched up, you don't need to think about anything else, just do it.
The only thing she had to do was prepare her ammunition.
The people under him were actually quite excited, firstly because the boss was finally going to cause trouble again, and this time the opponent was Director Chen.
Another point is that preparing the dirty material for "The Promise" is much easier than preparing other materials. There is a lot of that material available online.
……
In the evening, Director Chen and his wife also found out from other people who the 'little guy' he called was.
This other man is their son.
His son is also a fan of Zhang Chen.
Reading this blog, Director Chen was furious.
He couldn't see the other opinions expressed in it, only the negative emotions directed toward him.
The first one was that Zhang Chen's parents watched "The Promise" and said they couldn't understand it, and they had a fight about it.
The second one was Zhang Chen's accusation that he would rather leave opportunities to Korean, Japanese, Hong Kong and Taiwan actors than to mainland actors.
"There are such shameless people in the world~"
Director Chen said this warning in advance, which shows how angry he was at the time.
At this time, Zhang Chen didn't know that he had achieved the 'shameless' achievement earlier than Hu Ge, but even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care.
In fact, what he said in his blog today was very polite. Basically, there were no particularly sharp words. He was mainly targeted at Producer Chen.
After all, it was not Director Chen who scolded him, but Mrs. Chen.
……
At the same time, the Internet was as busy as the Chinese New Year.
Zhang Chen finally came out again.
Since the release of "The Promise", Zhang Chen has disappeared from public view.
At first, it was because I was filming in the United States, but after returning to China, I didn't see the beginning or end, and there was no evaluation of "The Promise".
Please, you are a youth idol, why don’t you have any energy at all?
Zhang Chen said, I don’t want to be a youth idol.
But today, the war broke out without warning.
First, Zhang Chen said in an interview that great directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige should give more opportunities to mainland actors. Then Director Chen and his wife were asked this question by the host of the movie channel during a live interview.
I don’t know if Chen Hong didn’t know or if he did it on purpose, he directly said that the other party was a ‘xiaoxiao’ with ulterior motives’.
Then Zhang Chen posted a short essay overnight, in which he criticized Mr. Chen and his wife.
Everyone is looking forward to how Director Chen will respond.
Why hasn’t it been updated yet? Waiting online, it’s very urgent~
……
The next day, I responded.
But it was Mrs. Chen who responded.
"Director Chen was very angry. He couldn't believe that there were such shameless people in the world.
At the same time, I am very suspicious of director Zhang Chen’s motive for so maliciously slandering “The Promise”. Do the four major directors have to become the three major directors or the two major directors?
We invested 350 million and spent three years working hard to produce a work that should not be maliciously slandered. Director Zhang Chen is also a major domestic director and should apologize to Director Chen for his behavior...
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In addition, I want to say something to the audience, if you don’t understand it, just read it a few times and you will always understand it..."
Once the response was sent out, it was reprinted in major media, online, print media, TV media...
Even Zhang’s father and Zhang’s mother saw it.
He held it in until Zhang Chen got up for lunch before he had the chance to ask.
"Son, what's going on? Mom and Dad are just complaining. It doesn't matter. You don't need to fight with the great director because of this..."
In order to clarify the ins and outs of the matter, the newspaper quoted Zhang Chen's entire blog. The first sentence Zhang's father and mother Zhang said when they saw the blog was that my parents had a fight because they watched "The Promise" and thought that their son was... Take it out on yourself.
"It's okay, Mom, I just feel unhappy, let me complain~"
"But, are you okay with this? Offending a great director for no reason..."
Even if they don’t know anything about the film industry, Zhang’s father and Zhang’s mother also know that Brother Chen Kai is a great director and that “Farewell My Concubine” won the award, which had political significance at the time.
"It's okay, I know it well."
Zhang Chen didn't know how to explain it to his parents.
"But people say..."
"Huh? What did he say?"
"See for yourself."
After reading Mrs. Chen's reply in the newspaper, Zhang Chen was completely angry.
Especially the last sentence - if you don’t understand, read it a few more times~
Who is talking about this?
Are you talking about his father and mother?
Is it tolerable, which one is intolerable?
He became a 'shameless person' and was insinuated that he was smearing Director Chen out of jealousy. This was actually nothing.
But when you talk about my parents, where do you get the courage?
Show your sword!
(End of chapter)